Aqueous Fairy Lure

Overflowing longing

Bubbles to the top

Gazing into that silent mirror

The fountain pool

A black glassy shrine

Replete with

Lilies and solitude

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

An invisible force

Draws bare feet to the grassy edge

Wading into the cloistered

Wetness

Center bottom slick

I slip, splashing in

Floating on a thin layer

Of liquid desire

I bide my time

Keeping in eager

Expectation of

Companionship

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Wallowing

In the refreshing glade

Topped with sharp

Scarlet-tipped lotuses

Delicate, with the countenance of

A trembling maid

Petals, impossibly sensual, soft

I long to run one lengthwise

Across the angle of my jaw

Scent wafting

Herbaceous and airy

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Green, supple rounds

Empty jadeite platters

Awaiting a sumptuous feast

Of thick, braised roots

And giggled rhymes

Flutter and slop around my

Buoyant flesh

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Depth that only half-submerges

In the fleeting, shallow beauty

Life bestir

Roots, holey and crisp

Beneath the surface

A thick, slimy tangle

Braided and anchored

Creepers encroaching

Around the bricked up edge

Like a crown of vines and algae

Dotted with green thorns

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

A tiny splash alerts

I gulp air before plunging

Beneath a surface disturbed

That I might catch a glimpse

Of the fairy allured

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Always

Partially exposed

when nose dips

Toes languidly drip

Brazenly

Skin on display

For furtive eyes

Never a singular moment

Do I feel they've looked away

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Serenity instill

Like the beating of my

Hungry heart

I float bare

Blossoming in the sunlight

Of love's radiating rays

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Wildly wangling weeds

Surround the clandestine garden

Obscuring this intimate reverie

Tiny splashing kicks

Of glee

Spray a mixture of

Clean water and a

Dissolving vegetal sludge

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Yards of obsidian waves

Cling to shoulders and chest

Adding dead weight to

Shimmering exposed skin

Billowing round my fragile physique

Passively restraining

Tendrils locking me in place

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Caught in the

Cascading waters

Enraptured by wonder

Capturing my naiad soul

Forever trapping me

In a fairy ring of brick and

Mortar

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

My search turns inward

Gazing into the

Perpetual depths of

The noon sun reflected in

Each cupped palm-full

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Like a bathing

Sprite caught in a

Summer shower

I revel in the ardent breeze

Winding through the

Ornamental reeds

Sing to the lyrical wings

Of hummingbirds and bees

As they hover and flit

From bud to bloom

Encouraging

That I should

Linger in the

Infinite puddle

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Basking under the

Glimmering falls

Observing, starry-eyed

Twilight’s call

As the stream

Splishes and bubbles away

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

Pink light dances

On pearlescent skin

Droplets dapple and

Race down and up my spine again

Shivers propel the prismatic beads

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

A quavering coolness passes

As the midnight moon

Seems to transform

From luscious, silky silver

To an eerie hollow

Waxen white wound

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

My new pond home

A scene of serene perfection

This captivating watery abode

Takes on a clear complexion

Morning exudes the

Most spectacular brilliance

Bringing on increasing

Levels of delight

Dawn bursts

In rainbow rays

A kaleidoscopic halo

Ringing every droplet

As mist sprays from my hair

In an arc of moistening haze

🧚‍♀️⛲🧚‍♀️

The precious spell

Only breaks upon my

Glancing command

Blinding reflections illuminate

The water in which I bathe

Filling the sky with waves

Rippling back into sparkling eyes

Frozen in time

Suddenly, my vision extends

Past the boundaries of my domain

Revealing eyes fixed upon me

Terrifying and divine

K.B. Silver